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Topic: 2 1/16" (52mm) Crank Nut Socket (Read 566 times)

Just wanted to let you guys know what I found this weekend by total accident. Anyone with an older Redditch Iron Barrel knows that finding a socket to fit the gigantic crank/stator nut can be a bit of chore. The general consensus is that one needs to go to Harbor Freight, buy the industrial sized 3/4" socket set for tractors at $80 + tax, and now you own an entire set of unneeded giant sockets just for that one 2 1/16" socket.

Have no fear! I've found the answer AND the source!

NAPA has a nice selection of over-sized sockets and wrenches, and they happen to have a 2 1/16" socket for $21. So now everyone knows where to get this behemoth of a socket.

nice one Scotty, but.... no more than I took that one loose I used a pipe wrench!yea mon, these things were made fer the werking man to werkon in the yard or on the porch and get him back to werk in the morning!!!!

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well yea..... the hardest part bout that one is rt. handed thread or lefty??

kind of like working on a tractor.....

One thing I've learned from working on bikes and motorcycles is that if it's an important part, and it rotates, the threads will be opposite of the rotating direction so it tightens itself as it spins. I thought everyone knew that.